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SUBMITTER: Bailey SE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6660730 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bailey Shara E SE Hublin Jean-Jacques JJ Antón Susan C SC
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20190708 30
The recently described Denisovan hemimandible from Xiahe, China [F. Chen et al., (2019) <i>Nature</i> 569, 409-412], possesses an unusual dental feature: a 3-rooted lower second molar. A survey of the clinical and bioarchaeological literature demonstrates that the 3-rooted lower molar is rare (less than 3.5% occurrence) in non-Asian <i>Homo sapiens</i> In contrast, its presence in Asian-derived populations can exceed 40% in China and the New World. It has long been thought that the prevalence of ...[more]